Open Source E-commerce
Mintsauce (1004 pencils) | Mon, 2008-08-18 21:41I want something that's flexible, powerful and easy to theme - who doesn't? I've tried using "Ubercart" for Drupal, but I find the learning curve of Drupal and Ubercart rather high. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind learning, but sometimes you just don't have the time to. (Unless I find another solution I'll still be sticking with it, since I definitly support the Drupal project.)
Does anybody have experience with any ecommerce solutions.
Prestahop, Opencart, Magento, Cubecart, AgoraCart, Zen Cart, OsCommerce, StoreSprite, others?
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what part of ubercart do you find hard to learn? configuration or themeing? i tried many shopping carts solution and there is nothing more powerful than ubercart. i have to say i still got some trouble with the themeing part but if you need help with configuration, maybe i can help you.
let me know.
I really do like UberCart, but I've not had very good luck with the theming. I've done some Drupal theming, but am not fluent enough to get it to look the way I want to. For example: www.craigtaylorshirts.com is the site I want to put the shopping cart up for. I did their blog at www.craigtaylorshirts.com/blog with Drupal - which was fairly straight forward - since it followed the standard Drupal blog layout - but the cart needs have the look of the site itself - which has been a little harder to get right.
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In my opinion, they are all going to be hard to theme, and they will all require a learning curve, especially for the client.
That said, I don't actually have experience with them all, but I've found OpenCart to be the simplest (both theming and training), but perhaps too simple to use. They have a ways to go with some standard features such as payment gateways.
ZenCart is popular, easy to theme once you figure it out, but its a gawd awful behemoth of an application. Slow, especially on shared hosting.
I'd take the time to learn Magento. It feels like the most thought out, robust of them all. Client training and theming wont be easy though.
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From a designer's perspective "Magento" looks the most promising (it has a nice interface and just looks great), but... From what I've read Magento is "hell" to theme, and runs relatively slow. That said; I've stuck my head in and started working with Ubercart. I just hope I can get it to work in time to meet this deadline! (At least I've been able to import products using XML - which took me a couple of days to figure out, I must add.)
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